Posted on 02/24/2018 1:22:07 PM PST by Red Badger
Jennifer Lawrence is a lot of things — Oscar winner, advocate, and Emma Stone’s biggest fan, among others — but one thing she’s not? A high school graduate.
In a preview of Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes, Lawrence, 27, opens up about her decision to forgo an education in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, for a career in Hollywood.
“I struggled through school. I never felt very smart,” says Lawrence, whose new spy thriller Red Sparrow (in theaters March 2) finds her playing a Russian intelligence officer who makes heartbreaking sacrifices at a young age. “And when I’m reading this script, and I feel like I know exactly what it would look like if somebody felt that way. That was a whole part of my brain that I didn’t even know existed — something that I could be confident in, and I didn’t want to let it go.”
“What was it you wanted so much?” asks CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
“It’s hard to explain. It’s just an overwhelming feeling of, ‘I get this. This is what I was meant to do,'” Lawrence says of acting. “And to get people to try to understand that when you’re 14 years old, wanting to drop out of school and do this, and your parents are just like, ‘You’re out of your mind.'”
But her parents listened to Lawrence’s instincts. “I dropped out of middle school. I don’t technically have a GED or a diploma,” she says with a smile. “I am self-educated.”
Whitaker asks if she regrets the decision. “No,” says Lawrence. “I really don’t. I wanted to forge my own path. I found what I wanted to do, and I didn’t want anything getting in the way of it. Even friends, for many years, were not as important to me as my career, I mean, from the age of 14.”
Always outspoken, Lawrence recently slammed disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for mentioning her name as a defense in his legal battles as he faces the fallout over multiple sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. “Harvey Weinstein and his company are continuing to do what they have always done which is to take things out of context and use them for their own benefit,” Lawrence said in a statement released Thursday. “This is what predators do, and it must stop.”
And on Wednesday, Lawrence lashed out at critics of her decision to wear a revealing Versace dress while promoting Red Sparrow in London, calling their comments “sexist” and “ridiculous.”
60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Watch a preview above.
And her face is on the side of a building in Louisville.
So is Mohammed Ali so I’m starting to think that city isn’t the place for me.
Very few cops on the beat understand.
So is George Clooney.
He lived one county over and went to NKU when I did.
Middle school can include 9 and 10th grades, depending on location.
“Yep. Just another vain female who got to her station in life based on her looks/gender and is now too stupid to know it.”
And ability to memorize lines. Memorization is the liberal mantra. That’s why many of them have worthless degrees and yet cannot tell the difference between a gun and a square root sign.
She dresses like a slut then calls you a sexist for noticing. Typical liberal.
“Explains a WHOLE LOT!”
Yes it does.
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she may not be traditionally educated, but she ain’t stupid.
Anyone who says Trump is causing hurricane is stupid whether they’re told to say it or not.
Tragic....just when she ‘might’ have been enlightened to the fact that the nation she is a part of is set up as a Constitional Republic ( now, if we could just get back to being one...).
Stupid is as stupid does???? However, she might be the most intelligent actor in hollywood..
notice ring on right hand (what does that mean?) Otherwise, LOL.
She got rich because she sold her body
There is a picture of her butthole on the internet, not kidding. She doesn’t even know how to secure her iCloud account.
But does she regret being dropped on her head.
She’s ridden the casting couch as if it were a surf board.
Because they were in Kentucky?
You know, that “angry woman” Ashley Judd I also think was from Kentucky.
Hmmm.
So is Johnny Depp and George Clooney. Neither of which graduated from high school. Clooney got his start in Attack of The Killer Tomatoes 2
As a middle school teacher, I will say there are some students who benefit from dropping out and working. Not many, but I am thinking of three students I have attempted to teach who just were not interested and knew I could not push the knowledge into their brains.
Some kids, not many, ought to drop out.
You are what is called a "self-starter"
You are self moviated and problally more mature than most people were at that age(I was a late bloomer)
You also are atypical of what most people think of when the term high school dropout is used. There is a small population of people who know what they want to do earlier in life and/or know how to achieve it.
My best friend is one of them. He is a small business owner and moderately wealthy. Sitting in a classroom was a bore to him and he had"conflicts" with school authorities so he quit.
Miss Jennifer is also atypical of dropouts and atypical of people who enter the acting profession. Meaning she has achieved great success(financially speaking) appearing in many blockbuster flicks.
However she is no Meryl Streep and (my opinion) her career will be short. Based primarily on her looks and her physique and if the rumors are true, a raging alcoholic, She may already at "peak Jennifer".
There is a limit to how many X-men and Hungar Games sequels the public will support. Hope she has a very good 402k plan.
This is the one who’s going to drop out of acting for a year to solve the country’s problems.
The brain power!
That's not her.
Google her name and "nude"
There is plenty of "proof" that her "talents" are in just the right position, very real and very, very nice.
As are the rest of her assets. (If you are famous, ever depend on iCloud to maintain your private moments on film)
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